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I was kind of hoping for a touch screen Mac. Is that ever gonna happen?

Funny.

I was just earlier toying with the idea of getting the iPad Pro as my second monitor. I just started using duet with my regular iPad, and was surprised both at how well it works for display and its touch screen!

Display rate is not great at highest resolution but perfect for my slack, dash, or current project displaying with browser sync while I work in my IDE on the main screen.

> duet with my regular iPad

cool. I'm gonna try this out at home. Thanks.

Nice, I had looked at this before and it seems they have a 50% discount right now. Time to pick it up I guess.

I was hoping for that too, but after some interactions with touch screens on Windows laptops, I realized there's very little I actually want to touch on a Desktop UI.

Try a touchscreen Chromebook. After a while you stop using the trackpad for a lot of interactions. It's a lot easier in a lot of cases to point-and-press than to have to move your cursor to the opposite corner.

What do you use the touchscreen for on ChromeOS? I basically never used the touch screen on my Chromebook until the beta with Android app support.

Well, touch almost makes complete sense in a web browser but few other places on the desktop.

Scrolling, hitting links etc would be easier.

I never want this. Why would I mess up my beautiful high resolution screen with fingerprints?

I rarely notice any fingerprints on my beautiful, high-resolution iPhone screen.

And I much prefer using a REAL computer with a REAL file system and REAL USB connectors for loading arbitrary data and organizing it into an arbitrary directory hierarchy and begin able to work on those files with any arbitrary combination of a REAL command line for extra powerful, customizable tools and REAL power GUI apps.

The multiple-degree-of-freedom stylus like the iPencil could give even more power to a real computer. Unfortunately, the thinking at Apple seems to be that if you want the power of a great stylus, you'll have to give up the real computer and use it on the toy OS that Apple seems to want us all to move to eventually.

Counterpoint: I notice fingerprints on my iPhone screen. I'm constantly wiping it on my jeans to get rid of bits of dirt, finger grease and other stuff.

I'm ambivalent about a touch screen Mac. I do know I've got plenty of fingerprints on my screen even without one :)

I don't think your shoulders are going to like it too much.

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